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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:57:21
Message-Id: 52E665B6.9030301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably by Alan McKinnon
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4 On 01/27/2014 02:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > On 27/01/2014 13:59, Tanstaafl wrote:
6 >> On 2014-01-26 1:04 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
7 >>> So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs
8 >>> are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore
9 >>> (which would be the most sane thing to do IMO).
10 >>
11 >> ?
12 >>
13 >> If the problem is really this potentially serious, why start
14 >> from scratch, when Paludis is already very mature? Is it pure
15 >> politics (someone just doesn't like Ciaran)?
16 >>
17 >>
18 >>
19 >
20 >
21 > No-one likes to admit it, but I think there's some NIH going on
22 >
23
24 If it's about performance (in the sense of speed), then paludis is
25 worse, because dependency calculation is more complex/complete there.
26 Debatable if that's really a problem, though.
27
28 If it's about code quality... it's probably better, especially because
29 it's not that old. But from a few looks at the code, it's not properly
30 documented at class/method level (at least I could not find any comments).
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>